From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 13 14:39: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C193237B401 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D60C43E4A for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:38:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phbrown@charter.net) Received: from [24.205.252.58] (HELO charter.net) by dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 77009991; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:38:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3D597C5D.8564DD25@charter.net> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:38:37 -0700 From: Parker Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Bleichert Cc: BSDQuestions Subject: Re: GNOME References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actually, I did that when I reinstalled 4.6 yesterday. Please help me here, as I'm having problems understanding. GNOME seems to be installed, but I can't find it. pkg_info says it's installed, but pkg_info -L hasn't a clue where or what it is. Trying to run make in the ports packages predictably says it's already installed, but even a successful make deinstall and make reinstall leaves me with "so what's new?" On a hunch, I tried running gdm, but as user it says "only root wants to run gdm." and as root it says it can't find a group or something like that. Can editing something get me around this? Pb John Bleichert wrote: > On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Parker Brown wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:06:41 -0700 > > From: Parker Brown > > To: BSDQuestions > > Subject: GNOME > > > > Tried to install gnome using pkg_add sometime yesterday. pkg-add > > couldn't find it (please see attachment "gnome.prob"). > > > > Then began a real nightmare --- I tried to install it from the ports > > section. After just over three hours, the installation had gobbled up > > some 280 Mb of disk space, so I stopped it, cleaned up what I could, and > > went to bed. This morning I restarted it (only about 260 Mb available > > this time). After just about precisely three hours the installation > > aborted because it was "out of disk space." (please see attachment > > "ROCKSOLIDDISKMANAGEMENT"). > > > > Installation requires more that six (6) hours and more that 500 Mb of > > disk space? I've got a very fast cable connection, a Pentium II with > > 192 Mb RAM, and a SCSI drive. > > > > Needless to say, I'll forget about gnome. But how about putting a > > warning statement in /usr/ports/x11/gnome/pkg_comment in the future. > > Really. > > > > Pb > > > > Instead of building it from source, why not just install the packages from > your CD, pre-built? > > /* > * John Bleichert > * syborg@stny.rr.com > * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg > */ -- Pb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message